As used in this chapter, unless the context
or subject matter otherwise requires, the following terms shall have
the following meanings:
The Superintendent of Sewage or his or her duly authorized
deputy, agent or representative.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days
at 20º C. (68º F.) expressed in parts per million (ppm)
or milligrams per liter (mg/l).
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a building sanitary
drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste, and
other sanitary drainage pipes inside the walls of any building, and
conveys such discharge to the building sewers, beginning four feet
outside the outer face of the building wall.
That part of the horizontal piping of a sanitary drainage
system which extends from the end of the building drain and which
receives the discharge of the building drain and conveys it to a public
sewer or other point of disposal.
The difference between the amount of chlorine added to water,
sewage or industrial wastes, and the amount of residual chlorine remaining
at the end of a twenty-minute contact period at 68º F.
A sewer designed to receive and transport both surface runoff
and sewage.
The water discharge from any system of condensation, air
conditioning, cooling, refrigeration, or other sources.
The Ulster County Department of Health.
Solid wastes from the domestic or commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food, or from handling, storage and sale
of produce.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation,
or group which develops industrial wastes as defined.
The fluid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes,
trade, or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
Garbage (shredded or unshredded), refuse, wood, coffee grounds,
sawdust, shavings, eggshells, bark, sand, lime, cinder, ashes, and
all other discarded matter not normally present in sewage or industrial
wastes.
Any person who obtains a permit for sewer connection.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
The intensity of the acid or alkaline reaction of a solution
in terms of hydrogen concentration (but is not a measure of the total
concentration of acid or alkali present). The pH is expressed as the
common logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen concentration in
moles per liter:
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pH = log 1
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Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage,
garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials,
radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discharged equipment, rock,
sand, cellar dirt, and industrial, municipal and agricultural waste
discharged into water.
Any privy, septic tank, cesspool, or other sewage disposal
facility owned and operated by a person other than a municipal sewage
system.
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of
food that has been shredded to such a degree that all particles will
be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in
public sewers, with no particle having a dimension greater than 1/2
inch in any dimension.
A sewer controlled by public authority.
A natural watercourse or any other body of surface water
or groundwater into which treated or untreated sewage is discharged.
A sewer which carries sewage, and to which stormwaters, surface
waters and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
The conditioned human waste matter collected from privies,
septic tanks, cesspools, and chemical toilets.
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, together
with such groundwater, surface water, and stormwater as may be inadvertently
present. The admixture of sewage as above defined with industrial
wastes or other wastes also shall be considered "sewage" within the
meaning of this definition.
The demand payment for the use of public sewer and/or sewage
treatment plant for handling any sewage, industrial wastes or other
wastes accepted for admission thereto, in which the quantity or characteristics
thereof exceed the maximum values as defined herein.
All facilities within the Sewer District for collecting,
regulating, pumping and transporting sewage to the Town of Gardiner
Sewer District No. 1 Water Pollution Control Facility.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage at the Town of Gardiner Sewer District No. 1 Water Pollution
Control Facility.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
The Town of Gardiner Sewer District No. 1 as created, altered,
or modified by action of the Town Board of the Town of Gardiner.
Is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
Any industrial user of the Town's sewage system who:
Has a flow greater than 5% of the Town design
flow, which is 3,000 gpd, into the sewage system;
Has in its wastes toxic pollutants as defined
pursuant to Section 307 of the Act or New York State statutes and
rules; or
Is found by the Town, New York State Department
of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC), or the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) to have significant impact, either singly
or in combination with other contributing industries, on the wastewater
treatment system, the quality of sludge, the system's effluent quality,
or air emissions generated by the system.
Any discharge of water, sewage, or industrial waste which
in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds
for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes more than five times
the average twenty-four-hour concentration or flow during normal operation.
A sewer which carries stormwaters and surface waters and
drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes other than cooling
waters and other unpolluted waters.
Solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension
in, water, sewage, or other liquids, and which are removable by laboratory
filtering.
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
"Clean Water Act," as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
The Town of Gardiner.
The septic tanks, interceptor sewers, trunk sewers, lateral
sewers, force mains, pumping stations, sewage regulators, and other
appurtenant structures owned and operated by the Town of Gardiner
Sewer District No. 1.
